Ernst Gombrich, who wrote as E.H. Gombrich, was an Austrian-born art historian who settled in England in 1936 and spent most of his working life there. He is best known for The Story of Art, an introduction to the visual arts, and Art and Illusion, a study of visual perception. His A Little History of the World surveys human history from the earliest times to the atomic age. Gombrich died in 2001.
